JAPANESE PRESIDES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 9

JAPANESE PRESIDES

NEXT CONFERENCE OF WOMEN. IMPRESSIONS OF A DELEGATE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 15. Miss Ellen Melville, Auckland, returned to New Zealand to-day by the Makura. She was one of the delegates who represented the New Zealand Federation of Women’s Clubs at the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference at Honolulu, and also spent three months in California. With regard to the conference she said that the principal subjects considered were education, health, industry, social science and international relations. It was remarkable to discover how very similar they found each other’s problems, no matter to what race they belonged. An interesting feature was the appointment of Mrs. Gauntless, a full-blooded Japanese, as president of the next conference, in 1937. She is the wife of an English resident in Japan. Miss Melville spoke of the ignorance of Americans regarding New Zealand s location, believing it part of Australia, but they were interested in and eager to learn more about this country. In California just now there was intense excitement over the election for Governor. The more conservative Democrats were viewing the progress of Mr. Upton Sinclair, the novelist, with some apprehension. Thoughtful people were alarmed at the trend **of his politics. Strangely enough, Republicans were expected tc give a bloc vote to Sinclair.